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Subject: [M]: "Hair Brained"
From: Bill Arnett
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Wed Dec 04 14:46:55 1996

I was amused by the following from the American Heritage Dictionary:
USAGE NOTE: The first part of the compound harebrained is often misspelled
hair in the belief that the meaning of the word is ³with a hair-sized
brain² rather than ³with no more sense than a hare.² Though hairbrained has
a long history, this spelling is not established usage.

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Bill Arnett              billa@znet.com           http://www.seds.org/billa/

  "I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search
   out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch
   the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of
   ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)